Most arch syscall_get_nr() implementations returns -1 if the syscall
number is not valid. Accessing the bit field without a check might
result in a kernel oops (at least I saw it on s390 for ftrace selftest).
Before this change, this problem did not occur, because the invalid
syscall number (-1) caused syscall_nr_to_meta() to return NULL.
There are at least two scenarios where syscall_get_nr() can return -1:
1. For example, ptrace stores an invalid syscall number, and thus,
tracing code resets it.
(see do_syscall_trace_enter in arch/s390/kernel/ptrace.c)
2. The syscall_regfunc() (kernel/tracepoint.c) sets the
TIF_SYSCALL_FTRACE (now: TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT) flag for all threads
which include kernel threads.
However, the ftrace selftest triggers a kernel oops when testing
syscall trace points:
- The kernel thread is started as ususal (do_fork()),
- tracing code sets TIF_SYSCALL_FTRACE,
- the ret_from_fork() function is triggered and starts
ftrace_syscall_exit() with an invalid syscall number.
To avoid these scenarios, I suggest to check the syscall_nr.
For instance, the ftrace selftest fails for s390 (with config option
CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS set) and produces the following kernel oops.
Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference at virtual kernel address 2000000000
Oops: 0038 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 Not tainted 2.6.31-rc6-next-20090819-dirty #18
Process kthreadd (pid: 818, task: 000000003ea207e8, ksp: 000000003e813eb8)
Krnl PSW : 0704100180000000 00000000000ea54c (ftrace_syscall_exit+0x58/0xdc)
R:0 T:1 IO:1 EX:1 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:0 CC:1 PM:0 EA:3
Krnl GPRS: 0000000000000000 00000000000e0000 ffffffffffffffff 20000000008c2650
0000000000000007 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffffffffffffffff 000000003e813d78
000000003e813f58 0000000000505ba8 000000003e813e18 000000003e813d78
Krnl Code: 00000000000ea540: e330d0000008 ag %r3,0(%r13)
00000000000ea546: a7480007 lhi %r4,7
00000000000ea54a: 1442 nr %r4,%r2
>00000000000ea54c: e31030000090 llgc %r1,0(%r3)
00000000000ea552: 5410d008 n %r1,8(%r13)
00000000000ea556: 8a104000 sra %r1,0(%r4)
00000000000ea55a: 5410d00c n %r1,12(%r13)
00000000000ea55e: 1211 ltr %r1,%r1
Call Trace:
([<0000000000000000>] 0x0)
[<000000000001fa22>] do_syscall_trace_exit+0x132/0x18c
[<000000000002d0c4>] sysc_return+0x0/0x8
[<000000000001c738>] kernel_thread_starter+0x0/0xc
Last Breaking-Event-Address:
[<00000000000ea51e>] ftrace_syscall_exit+0x2a/0xdc
Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090825125027.GE4639@cetus.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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